Then in 1989, Physics Today published an extensive article about anyons [1]} attributing their discovery to Wilczek, mentioning Leinaas and Myrheim's article briefly, and omitting all reference to our work. My colleagues and I requested a correction. Somewhat to our surprise, there ensued an extraordinary battle – at heavy personal cost – before we achieved publication of the proper attributions. Eventually, the error was corrected. A detailed letter, authored by Biedenharn, Lieb, Simon, and Wilczek [2]}, described our contributions accurately and succinctly. Wilczek included a sentence in his book [3]} (p. 105) citing our three earliest papers. He invited our contribution to a special issue of International Journal of Modern Physics B he was then editing [4]}. There had never been an actual dispute regarding the sequence of discoveries, and it seemed that after eight years the acknowledgment issue was resolved.
